SELF-ACCUSATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does self-accusation mean? 

• SELF-ACCUSATION (noun)
  The noun SELF-ACCUSATION has 1 sense:

1. an admission that you have failed to do or be something you know you should do or be

  Familiarity information: SELF-ACCUSATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELF-ACCUSATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An admission that you have failed to do or be something you know you should do or be

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

self-accusation; self-condemnation

Hypernyms ("self-accusation" is a kind of...):

confession (an admission of misdeeds or faults)

accusal; accusation (a formal charge of wrongdoing brought against a person; the act of imputing blame or guilt)

 Context examples 

You come to us now to share a misery which nothing can alleviate; yet your presence will, I hope, revive our father, who seems sinking under his misfortune; and your persuasions will induce poor Elizabeth to cease her vain and tormenting self-accusations.—Poor William! he was our darling and our pride!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)